Anatolij Lebedew-Schuiskij

Anatolij Lebedew-Schuiskij is the German transliteration of Анатолий Адрианович Лебедев-Шуйский, an artist whose name also appears in English-language auction records as Anatoly Lebedev-Shiusky. Russian-language biographical sources give his life dates as 1896 to 1978 and his birthplace as Shuya, Russia. The exact day of both his birth and his death, and his place of death, are not documented in the sources currently available, so those fields are left unresolved here rather than guessed.

He is described in Russian art-market sources as a painter and graphic artist, working principally as a landscape painter with a body of work dedicated to Moscow. The same sources describe his family background only as "of an employee." He attended the Shuya Men's Classical Gymnasium and the Ivanovo School of Music, 1916 to 1918, studied in the studio of P. I. Kelina, and completed his formal art training in 1924 at the Higher Art and Technical Workshops (VKhUTEMAS) in Moscow under Pyotr Konchalovsky and Ilya Mashkov. He was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR and held the state honorific title of Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR; the year in which the title was conferred is not documented in available sources.

No signed critical assessments of the artist's work in major art publications have been located, so no verbatim quotation is included here. What is documented is official and institutional rather than critical: his membership in the Union of Artists of the USSR, his RSFSR honorific, and nine works held in the State Tretyakov Gallery plus one in the State Russian Museum place him within the recognized ranks of Soviet artists of his generation. General Russian-language sources add that his work also appears in unnamed regional museums and private collections, but no further institution has been confirmed by name.

The only auction result located for the artist in currently accessible databases is an untitled poster design, sold at Lempertz in Cologne for EUR 3,472 including premium. The Lempertz artist index confirms the work, the house, and the price, but it does not give an exact sale date, and no earlier or later transaction has been found that would supersede it. Given how little of his output has passed through the recorded secondary market, this single result should be read as a data point rather than a stable benchmark. No gallery or estate is currently identified in public sources as representing the artist or managing his market.

This is a thinly documented, deep-catalogue name rather than an actively traded market artist. There is no catalogue raisonne and no centralized authentication body; any acquisition should be paired with independent archival and provenance research specific to the work in hand. With only one confirmed auction result and no confirmed current representation, collectors should treat any valuation as provisional and revisit it if new sales or documentation surface.